In the Southern Song Dynasty, I competed with Mongolia for the world

Chapter 339 Raise millions of troops to attack the Song Dynasty in one fell swoop

After thinking about it for a while, Atachi called his wife and children: "We can no longer defend the city, and we may not be able to break out even if we escape the siege."

"You change into some common people's coarse clothes and find a common people's house to live in first. When the Song army enters the city, they will say that you are Khitans or Turks."

He also asked his subordinates to find a house in the city, move all the original owners and their families out of the house, and then kill them.

His family occupied the house and pretended that they were not Mongolians.

A La Gu was moved when he saw it. He was a Khitan himself, so he also asked his family to stay in the city.

While they were doing these things here, suddenly there was a panic in the city, and then someone ran over not far away.

The Song army was surrounded by ants on both sides.

The west gate climbed directly along the bombed-out urn city, and the Mongolian army could not stop it.

To the east, the Mongolian army saw that the general Adachi was also gathering troops and horses to leave the city, and they also descended on the city. So the Song army directly used ladders to attack.

After a while, some of the bricks and stones they blocked behind the east city gate were cleared out, and the gap became larger. Both the east and west sides were lost. A large number of Song troops had already climbed up the city wall and would soon enter the city.

"Go quickly, go quickly." Adachi gave the order, and the city gate opened wide.

As soon as the east city gate opened, A Dachi and A La Gu gasped.

Thirty steps outside the city gate, there were Song troops densely packed like ants.

The Song army has already climbed up the ladder on both sides of the city gate, and directly opposite the city gate, the Song army is waiting closely to prevent them from leaving the city.

Rows of spearmen, all with large shields in front of them, with spears mounted on the shields, the spears were like a forest, and the shields were like walls, blocking the place directly opposite the city gate.

Almost at the same time as their city gate opened, the people on both sides of the Song army, as long as they had not climbed up the wall, jumped off the ladder one after another, and then retreated back.

There is no room for cavalry at all.

The cavalry needed maneuverability and space. The Song army was blocked dozens of steps away, and Adachi knew it would be difficult to rush out.

But now that the city gate is open, there is nothing to hesitate.

"Come on." He and A La Gu commanded bravely.

With a rumble, hundreds of Mongolian riders rushed out of the city gate.

Almost half of these hundreds of Mongolian cavalry are the headquarters of the Mongolian army, and the rest are mainly Khitan people, with very few Jurchens and Turks.

When they rushed out of the east city gate, they could still see the ant-attached Song army retreating on the road.

Atachi personally took his bow and shot down a Song army, and finally felt much happier.

But the next moment, the Song army on the opposite side came like a tide with large shields and surrounded them from all directions.

"Charge, charge - kill." Adachi just raised his arms and shouted.

"buzz"

There was a sudden buzz in the air.

All the Mongolian troops raised their heads.

I saw an overwhelming wave of black clouds flying over from behind the Song Army's spear formation.

Only when they were mid-air did they see clearly that it was not a black cloud, but a wave of arrows.

"Damn it." Atachi closed his eyes in despair, lying on the horse's back with his whole body, speeding up crazily and rushing forward.

Swish, swish, the Song army's arrows rained down, straight into the Mongolian cavalry formation.

With a roar and a thud, people on the scene fell over and over again, and the Mongolian troops fell down in pieces.

There is really no way around this. The Song army not only has many arrows, but they are also dense and continuous.

There were too few of them, only a few hundred riders, and four-fifths of them had already fallen before they could rush into the Song army's formation.

In the end, there were only a hundred cavalry left, and they ran directly into the Song Army's spear formation.

The war horse fell even more heavily. The Song army's spears were like a forest, airtight, and there were shields in the front row blocking the ground.

The key point is that they came out of the city and were only a few dozen steps away from the Song army. The speed of the war horses did not increase at all, and there was no room to increase speed.

The force of the collision was not good either.

Before Adachi bumped into Song Jun, he was hit by several arrows in the back. Fortunately, he lay on his horse and did not fall off.

At the last moment before he was about to hit the Song Army, he heard a sound, thump, and someone fell heavily. He quickly turned his head and looked out of the corner of his eye, but it was A La Gu who fell heavily to the ground.

The war horses behind almost trampled Alagon and continued to move forward.

After a war horse stepped on Alagon's body, the horse's hoof slipped and there was a roar. The Mongolian army above, including men and horses, pressed heavily on Alagon's body.

Without even thinking about it, A La Gu was going to be trampled and crushed to death.

Hiss, Adachi couldn't help but gasped again. Before he could turn around, his eyes felt dark.

Boom, his horse hit the Song army's infantry formation.

At this time, his horse speed was not even half as fast, only thirty or forty yards.

The collision was not strong enough, and the formation on the opposite side shook slightly. The two shields in the front row collapsed, with one side falling and the other dislocated.

"嚅" the war horse screamed and stopped.

Swish, swish, several spears stabbed Atachi at the same time.

Atachi endured the pain and turned over, jumping directly from the horse.

"Kill." He roared and stepped forward with the knife in hand.

Opposite him was a young Song Jun, who was fully armored and squatting on the ground. There was a big shield in front of him. He had just been knocked out of position. Now he was in a hurry. With a force, he first stabilized the shield, and then quickly pulled it back. .

The shield returned to its position instantly, still blocking the body.

Atachi only saw the upper body of the opponent. Without thinking, he took a step forward, grabbed the shield with one hand, and prepared to slash at it with his long knife.

Unexpectedly, whoosh, two long spears suddenly stretched out from behind the Song Army and stabbed him from the left and right.

Atachi blocked with his long sword on both sides.

Dang-dang, there was a symphony of sounds on the scene. The Song Army's spear on the left was blocked by him, and the Song Army's spear on the right was stabbed hard by his blade. With a slap, the gun head was broken directly.

Atachi sneered, took another step forward, and continued to grab the shield.

Unexpectedly, the Song Army on the opposite side suddenly pushed forward and the shield fell to the ground.

Then he stabbed his feet with the spear in his hand.

Atachi hadn't thought that someone would stab someone's feet during a fight.

This time I was really caught off guard, and I was shot in the right calf by the opponent.

"Ah" Atachi shouted in pain.

The opponent jerked the gun tip, and the spear separated, taking away a piece of flesh and blood from his leg.

Atachi's painful head was sweating profusely.

But he was also a fierce general, enduring the severe pain and moving forward.

At this time, the Song Army stood up, and the Song Army on the left and right followed him at the same time. Swish, swish, swish, and stabbed Atachi again with three long spears.

The two stabbed him in the upper body, but Song Jun on the other side stabbed him in the lower body.

Ata Chi could care about the top but not the bottom. He could block the left side but not the right side.

He hurriedly blocked up and down for a few seconds, and then he was stabbed in the right leg again. This shot almost instantly disabled him from fighting.

Then he pounced, pounced, and pounced. The Song army stabbed him with long spears, piercing his flesh.

Adachi's eyes widened and he looked at the young Song Jun in front of him with dissatisfaction.

That expression seems to be saying, what are your abilities if you use more to fight against less?

At this time, he saw another Song army coming forward.

He had just cut off the head of Song Jun's spear, but the wooden pole was still a bit sharp.

Song Jun held the gun barrel and looked at Atachi, who was still standing on the ground with his knife on the ground. He directly raised the gun barrel, pounced, and thrust it into Atachi's eyes.

When Atachi fell down, he saw from the corner of his eye that almost none of the men around him was still on horseback.

The formation of the Song army was also in chaos. The chaotic Song army surrounded the Mongolian army densely. The Song army was poking with guns everywhere, and some seventy or eighty people were surrounding one person and stabbing them.

His soldiers fell to the ground one after another, screaming and crying in pain.

At the same time that Adachi was stabbed to the ground, at the west gate of Shazhou City, Dazazan and Azanbi Zheng and hundreds of civilians were carrying rubble after the explosion to clear the gate for the Song army to enter the city.

On both sides of their work, a large number of Song troops were climbing up the city wall along the collapsed areas on both sides. The fall of Shazhou City was already a matter of time.
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More than 300 miles north of Datong.

This area used to be the area of ​​Guanshan on Yunzhong Road in the Northern Song Dynasty. In the Jin Dynasty, it was Guanshan of Xuanning County on Xijing Road. The approximate scope was around Zhuozi and Huitengliang in Inner Mongolia in later generations.

The weather here is relatively cold, and there has been an incident where it snowed even in June.

Therefore, after Wokuotai ascended the throne, he often came here to escape the heat in summer.

There is a record in the history of the Yuan Dynasty: "In May of summer, I went to Jiujiquan (Guanshan) to escape the summer heat. I was ordered to leave Baoji by Mingtuo Lei". In the following year, "In April of the summer, I left Juyong to escape the summer heat in Guanshan".

Since Mongolia withdrew its troops from the Central Plains last year, Wokuotai divided the nearly 40 main force into several groups. Some went to Liaodong, some went to Xixia, and some stayed in Shanxi and Hebei. Finally, with less than 20 troops, they left the fortress via Datong. Going north, we returned to Guanshan first.

Wokuotai originally wanted to return to Harahelin.

Hara Helin was the capital established by Genghis Khan during his lifetime, and no palace has been built yet.

It was originally three years before Ogedai decided to build the palace.

However, this time the expedition against the Jin Dynasty failed, and the main force of the Mongolian army had to retreat to the grassland. Wokuotai was already considering building a palace.

Because if the Jin Kingdom cannot be destroyed, the Mongolian army must have its own administrative palace.

In the past, when he discussed important matters, he would gather dignitaries from all over the country in Guanshan.

But Guanshan is too cold. It can be used as a summer escape, but it is not suitable for living in winter.For this reason, it was put on his agenda to build Mongolia's own capital palace in Haraholin as soon as possible.

Last year when he was in Datong, he had discussed it with Yelu Chucai and other civil servants.

If a capital city was to be built in Halakhalin, at least [-] workers and craftsmen would be needed.

Haraholin City has a planned circumference of ten miles and is divided into inner and outer cities. Only craftsmen are allowed to stay in the city. Han Chinese and craftsmen of all ethnic groups from the Mongol Empire have to move to the city.

Originally, they planned to recruit Jin national husbands and craftsmen to do this after conquering the Jin Kingdom. Now that the Jin Kingdom failed to defeat them, they instead took advantage of the Song people. Wo Kuotai was very angry and helpless.

In February of the eighth year of Baoqing, Wokuotai and his army had just arrived at Guanshan. At this time, it was already spring in the coastal areas, and it was still relatively cold there. The snow on the mountains had not melted yet. The army had no choice but to temporarily camp near Guanshan. At the same time, he called for orders. Datong Yelu Chucai delivered some supplies.

On February [-]th, Yelu Chucai came to Guanshan to meet with Wokuotai.

It was freezing outside, but it was relatively warm inside the tent, with stoves burning all around.

After Yelu Chucai entered, he saw several people inside.

The great Khan Wokuotai, the king of the clan, went to Chen Nayan, and the three sons of Wokuotai came out, including the concubine Hedan, and the nobles of the clan such as Hanerda, Baidaer, Suhuncha, and Biedie were also there.

"My lord, I would like to pay homage to your majesty. Long live your majesty." Yelu Chucai knelt down when he came in and called your majesty directly.

Several people at the scene frowned.

The Mongolian nobles now call Ogedai Hehan.

However, Yelu Chucai always wanted to be addressed as the emperor. When he met Ogedai alone in private, he might call him Hehan, but when there were a lot of people, he would definitely be polite and address him respectfully, your majesty, and even shout long live.

He was setting an example and deliberately showing it to others.

When Ogedai was elected as the Great Khan, it was Yelu Chucai who privately reminded Chagatai that your brother is the emperor and that you have to bow before him and set an example first. Only then did Chagatai step forward and kneel down, forcing him to do so. Tuo Lei could only kneel down.

To be honest, many nobles in Greater Mongolia are not used to this kind of etiquette. They kneel and worship, and still shout long live His Majesty. Everyone is quite unhappy.

In particular, Zongwang Chen Nayan, considered the elder of Wokuotai, disliked this the most.

However, Yelu Chucai is improving various systems in Mongolia and is doing his best to transform Mongolia from a nomadic nation to a centralized and unified dynasty. This has won Wogotai's trust and support, and there is nothing he can do if he is unhappy.

"Hahaha, grow your beard quickly. We are all our own people here, so there is no need to pay such a courtesy." Wo Kuotai laughed and asked Yelu Chucai to stand up. For some reason, he felt a little weird when he heard others call him Your Majesty. , but it sounds very comfortable.

When Yelu Chucai stood up, Wo Kuotai motioned for him to sit cross-legged below, and the servants immediately brought him hot goat's milk wine.

Everyone drank hot wine and discussed things.

After Wokuotai smiled, his expression quickly darkened.

"As soon as I arrived in Guanshan, I got news from Liaodong."

"The Song Army and the Goryeo Army united, and our army was ambushed again and suffered heavy losses--" Wo Kuotai had obtained this news more than a month ago, but he kept it secret.

There was no way he could do it. After he ascended the throne, he was defeated in the Jin Kingdom and again in the Goryeo Dynasty. He lost many generals one after another. His majesty was getting worse day by day, so at this time, he would definitely hide it if he could.

Now the eldest son Guiyou has gone to Liaodong and is reorganizing the troops there.

Originally, Guiyu had been planning to take over and then attack Dongxia. Now that the Mongolian army suffered a disastrous defeat in Goryeo, he could only focus on defense for the time being, waiting for new instructions from Ogootai.

Wokuotai summoned Yelu Chucai this time to ask for his opinions.

Before Yelu Chucai came to his senses, Wo Kuotai said again: "There was news from Liaodong a few days ago."

"On the tenth day of the second lunar month, the Song Army and Goryeo first summoned troops to surrender and attack Pu Xian Wan Nu, but to no avail. The two armies jointly began to attack Pu Xian Wan Nu, and Pu Xian Wan Nu was defeated step by step."

This is the latest news that Wo Kuotai has received. The Song army and the Koreans are fighting in Liaodong, and they will attack Pu Xian Wan Nu first.

Originally, Wokuotai planned to send Guiyou to attack and destroy the Dongxia Kingdom, but he did not expect that the Song army would attack first.

Now there is a voice among the Mongolian army that they will immediately send troops to assist Pu Xianwannu to fight against the Song army.

The shameless Song army aided Goryeo and ambushed the Mongolian army. Many Mongolian nobles wanted to retaliate against the Song army and sent troops to aid Pu Xianwannu.

But after Pu Xianwannu betrayed Mongolia and killed a large number of Mongolians, he established the country of Eastern Xia. Some of the Mongolians were ruthless to them and wanted to destroy them first and then quickly.

Wokuotai is in a dilemma.

Before there was no troublemaker like the Song Army, he sent Guiyou as the commander and launched a three-pronged Mongolian attack. It took nearly a year to destroy Pu Xianwannu.

Now history has changed. The Song Army is a troublemaker everywhere. Wokuotai obviously wants to destroy Dongxia, but he is not willing to let the Song Army do it.

Moreover, they have a blood feud with Pu Xian Wan Nu. Even if they want to support Pu Xian Wan Nu, they have to agree and trust them.

Yelu Chucai is now his most trusted minister, so he values ​​Yelu Chucai's opinion very much.

After he finished these words, everyone around looked at Yelu Chucai, and everyone wanted to hear what he meant.

After Yelu Chucai thought for a while, he said slowly: "In the past few years, I have been studying the Song Dynasty emperor Zhao Yurui. I found that although Zhao Yurui was controlled by powerful officials when he ascended the throne, he did not do much in the early stage."

"But since he rebelled and seized power on his wedding day, he has been like a flying dragon in the sky, out of control."

"He looks young, but he has profound plans and the ability to be a wise king -"

Yelu Chucai came up and played for Zhao Yurui.

Al Chen Nayan, who was standing next to him, was immediately dissatisfied: "Why should a long beard increase other people's ambitions? I think none of the emperors of the Song Dynasty were wise emperors. They are all trash."

"So, we cannot look at the Song Dynasty from the perspective of the past. The emperor of the Song Dynasty has changed, and the Song Dynasty is not the Song Dynasty before." Yelu Chucai said.

Chen Nayan was dissatisfied: "The people of Song Dynasty are still the people of Song Dynasty. I don't believe that in just a few years, people of Song Dynasty can change the world."

"Nagaqi. (Uncle)" Wo Kuotai glanced at Ouchen Nayan and signaled him not to interrupt Yelu Chucai.

Orchen Nayan rolled his eyes and didn't know what to say.

Yelu Chucai continued to speak for a while, mostly praising Zhao and Rui. At the same time, he reminded the Song Dynasty that its national power was not what it used to be and was growing day by day. He also sent businessmen to Lin'an as a detailed plan. You can see Lin'an City every day. There were ships all around like clouds, merchants like rain, and countless merchant ships and warships entering and leaving Lin'an.

In the words of Yelu Chucai, this is a symbol of the rise of a dynasty's national power and resources.

"Our place is different from the Western Expedition."

"The Song Dynasty was a behemoth and was getting stronger. It is no exaggeration to say that the Song Dynasty now far surpasses our Mongol Empire in both military and economic terms."

The corner of Chen Nayan's mouth twitched, feeling quite unhappy with this statement.

It doesn't matter if you say that the economy of the Song Dynasty surpassed theirs, but if you talk about military affairs, he would definitely be dissatisfied.

But Wokuotai did not allow him to interrupt and asked everyone to listen quietly to Yelu Chucai's analysis.

"After Zhao Yurui ascended the throne, he attached great importance to craftsmen. He incorporated most of the craftsmen in the country as court officials and gave them the same treatment as officials--"

"The Song Dynasty's ability to build armor has been greatly improved."

"He improved the treatment of military attaches and soldiers. According to the information obtained by the minister, before Zhao Yurui ascended the throne, the officers and soldiers of the Song Dynasty were often owed military pay."

"But after Zhao Yurui ascended the throne, he didn't even owe a penny."

"He reigned for several years and recruited new troops many times. The Song Dynasty's army should now exceed 100 million."

"This person also attaches great importance to military training. The Song Army used to practice one small drill every three days and one big drill every few days. Even the Yue Family Army did not train every day."

"All armies in the Song Dynasty now train for six days and have one day off. They train non-stop throughout the year."

Having said this, he raised his head and looked at Orchen Nayan: "If our Mongolian army had not gone out to fight, the training time throughout the year would not be as much as one-tenth of the Song army."

"Under such high-intensity training, the Song Army's cavalry is becoming more and more powerful. If we don't pay attention to it, in less than ten years, the Song Army's cavalry will be as good as ours, or even more elite than us."

Chen Nayan couldn't help but asked: "So many war horses from the Song Dynasty? So many cavalry from the Song Dynasty?"

"The Song army kept war horses on Jeju Island, Sichuan also kept them, and Tubo also had them -"

I have to say that Yelu Chucai has been really studying Zhao Yurui in the past few years. There is a lot of information that the Mongolians have never heard of, but Yelu Chucai knows it.

He collected taxes and handled government affairs north of the Yellow River. He specially asked businessmen to help him inquire about various news about the Song Dynasty, and thus obtained a lot of first-hand information.

Following his report, Wo Kuotai's expression became more serious, and he finally realized that the Song Dynasty now was really different from before.

The third son of Wo Kuotai, Kuo Chu, asked: "Where did the bearded Qing obedience come from? Why didn't you tell me before?"

"I would like to invite Han merchants to quietly inquire about the trade in the Song Dynasty. After collecting information from many parties and confirming it, I can report it to Your Majesty."

Yelu Chucai likes to reuse Han people, which is something everyone in Mongolia knows.

Wokuotai fully believed in Yelu Chucai and set up ten tax envoys, all of whom were Han Confucian scholars.

Chen Shike and Zhao Fang envoys to Yanjing, Liu Zhong and Liu Huan to Xuande, Zhou Lihe and Wang Zhen to Xijing, Lu Zhen and Liu Zizhen to Taiyuan, Yang Jian and Gao Tingying to Pingyang, Wang Jin and Jia Cong to Zhending. Yu and Wang Rui were envoys to Dongping, Wang Deheng and Hou Xian were envoys to Beijing, Jiagu Yong and Cheng Tai were envoys to Pingzhou, Tian Muxi and Li Tianyi were envoys to Hejian. Finally, these places collected a large amount of taxes for Mongolia every year.

Nowadays, it is also various wealthy merchants from these places who bring various information about the Song Dynasty to Yelu Chucai.

"Zhao Yurui did many things well, but there was one thing he did extremely wrong." Yelu Chucai said again at this time.

"What's the matter?" All the Mongolian nobles present looked interested.

"The Song army aggressively targeted the landlords and gentry within its own territory and attacked the large farming households, causing the landlords and gentry to become alienated from the imperial court."

"It is said that after they invaded the Jin Kingdom, they first raided the local big houses in every city they visited. No matter how popular these big houses were in the past, they raided them all first. They took possession of the money and distributed the grain fields to the people."

"Although they have the support of the people, they have completely offended the landowners and big households everywhere."

"Under our rule, we have always placed great emphasis on the powerful landlords. Many local powerful people have also made great contributions and have been awarded the title of Ten Thousand Households of the Han Army by Your Majesty."

"What Zhao Yurui has done now has completely pushed the landlords and gentry to our side. When doing business with the Song people, many businessmen are willing to help us find out information and spy on the military situation. They don't want the Song army to break in. "

The Song army now raids large households every time they occupy a city. Not to mention the Jin Kingdom, even the powerful landowners north of the Yellow River resist the Song army, so they try their best to help the Mongols.

Even Yelu Chucai believed that since ancient times, all dynasties had to rely on landlords. When the Jin Kingdom and Mongolia entered the north, they also relied on local powerful people. Some of them directly eliminated the powerful people like the Song Army.

Landlords and powerful people are usually associated with most Confucian scholars and scholars.

If Zhao Yurui does this, there will definitely be problems in the future.

Orchen Nayan was anxious again. What did you say so much have to do with the Liaodong war?
Yelu Chucai said at this time: "I have two choices now."

"The best policy is to recuperate, accumulate grain in the fields, temporarily negotiate peace with Song Dynasty, accumulate national strength, and wait for the opportunity."

"Another strategy is not to give the Song people a chance to continue to develop. After the beginning of spring, we will join forces with the Jin Kingdom to attack the Song Dynasty with all our strength. We will recall and assemble all the soldiers and horses from the Western Expedition, Western Liao, Xixia and other places. We will raise millions of troops to attack and destroy them in one fell swoop. Song Dynasty."

As soon as these words came out, everyone around them turned pale in shock.

(End of this chapter)